Cerebral Palsy Quotes:

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

- Laura San Giacomo

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Son, Years, Talking, Cerebral, Cerebral Palsy

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

- Greg Walloch

source: "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: People, Perception, Overcoming, Cerebral Palsy

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Issues, Disability, Interest, Cerebral, Cerebral Palsy

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

- Natalia Vodianova

topic: Mother, Children, Home, Cerebral, Cerebral Palsy

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

- Geri Jewell

topic: Eyebrows, Ears, Being A Woman, Hardest Thing, Cerebral Palsy

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Mother, Children, Curves, Cerebral, Cerebral Palsy

I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."

- Zach Anner

topic: Foundation, Campaigns, Records, Cerebral Palsy

My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Mother, Brother, Father, Cerebral, Cerebral Palsy

You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar.

- Zach Galifianakis

topic: Funny, Humor, Gay, Cerebral Palsy

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: "What I see in the mirror" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

topic: Girl, Father, Moving, Cerebral Palsy

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

- Curtis Joseph

topic: Running, Brother, Golf, Cerebral Palsy, Ontario